<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Yeah, I could see that raising an eyebrow... Any (coherent) output from ifconfig? Off the top of my head, it seems reasonable to think that the box could have the routing table & other data cached in RAM - but as soon as it hiccups, it's game over...<br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">T.</div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mike Bean" <beandaemon@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"CLUE's mailing list" <clue@cluedenver.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 7, 2016 4:12:15 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [clue] the WTH boxes<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">By way of explanation, what got me thinking about this topic is I found a centos box with network connectivity and no ifcfg file for the device. For the life of me, I couldn't quite process the idea that maybe it's possible for an eth* to exist in RAM without the corresponding file? Had no idea why I was even logged into the thing.<div><br></div><div>Mike B</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Philipp Giddings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil9x@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:phil9x@gmail.com">phil9x@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Most users say if its not broken don't fix it, problem is they don't maintain it either.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Mike Bean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beandaemon@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:beandaemon@gmail.com">beandaemon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">If clue will allow me to whine/share for a minute, I'm curious. Have you ever had that moment. Have you ever had that moment where you come across a box so messed up that you honestly have no idea how the thing is even still working?<div><br></div><div>Mike B</div></div>_______________________________________________<br> clue mailing list: <a href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org">clue@cluedenver.org</a><br> For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br> <a href="http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue">http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> clue mailing list: <a href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org">clue@cluedenver.org</a><br> For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br> <a href="http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue">http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>clue mailing list: clue@cluedenver.org<br>For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>